Now the “Just Foreign Policy” group calls the U.S. indictment of Snowden a “grave assault against freedom of the press,” a “political persecution,” and it argues that Snowden’s prosecution was handled in a “completely arbitrary fashion.” In the group’s eyes, Snowden only revealed NSA actions that were violations of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. To “Just Foreign Policy,” President Obama is clearly a fascist who “seeks to silence those who have brought these abuses to light.” Hence, the Obama administration is guilty of “political repression,” the Left’s most favored term.

So who signed the petition? The answer is the usual suspects — all leaders of the far-Left fringe in our country. The headline on the petition reads: “Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Tom Hayden Urge President Correa to Grant Snowden Asylum.”

Oliver Stone, as readers of PJ Media well know, is a friend to any leftist thug, from Fidel Castro (whom he honored in two television documentaries) to Hugo Chavez, and of course a man whose recent TV series on Showtime honors the legacy of Joseph Stalin and his appeasers in the United States. Noam Chomsky is an open friend to terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, an enemy of the state of Israel, and a man who is second to none in his hatred of the United States. Tom Hayden, once the hero of the New Left, has descended in his mature years to another in the chorus of left-wing crazies, becoming more and more extreme in his utterances with each judgment.

The remaining signers are a virtual who’s who of the anti-American far Left. The list includes actors Danny Glover, Shia LaBeouf, John Cusack, and Rosanne Barr — reminding us that actors have no more sense than any other set of fools; leftist activist Medea Benjamin of “Code Pink”; Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine; leftist history professors Peter Kuznick (Stone’s co-author of the TV series), Carolyn “Rusty” Eisenberg of Hofstra University, Greg Grandin, Sinclair Thomson, and Marilyn Blatt Young of New York University, and Bob Buzzanco of Houston University; and 60s activist lawyer and historian Staughton Lynd.

Of the others listed, one must also mention Daniel Ellsberg, who gained fame as the man who released the “Pentagon Papers.” Say what you will about Ellsberg, he did not leave the country, he faced the music, and he argued that what he released was an informational study about how the U.S. got into the war in Vietnam, which he hoped would get the American public to see the war as an unnecessary and unjust intervention. Since then, Ellsberg has revealed himself to be just another in the chorus of far-left extremists, and a man close to Noam Chomsky.

One has to wonder if Edward Snowden, when he started out, really knew that he would become the propaganda tool of far leftists, and a stooge for America’s enemies abroad and at home. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Edward Jay Epstein connects the dots and shows that before Snowden took his job with Booz Allen Hamilton, he already had got in touch with “with people who would later help arrange the publication of the material he purloined. Two of these individuals, filmmaker Laura Poitras and Guardian blogger Glenn Greenwald, were on the Board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation that, among other things, funds WikiLeaks.”

That means that Snowden planned to release information that he had sworn to protect, a violation of the oath he took when he received his security clearance. He misappropriated communications intelligence and, as Epstein writes, it was a “well-planned theft of U.S. secrets,” probably aided and abetted by others who were his accomplices. He was not any kind of a whistle-blower.

Hopefully, unless they want to remain in the same camp with leftist extremists, some of the libertarians who have supported Snowden, like Glenn Beck, will reconsider their actions. To offer support and gratitude to Edward Snowden, at this point, is to support those who would like to bring the United States down. That should be clear when we look at the politics of those who approve of what he has done.

You don't have to be anti-American to rally to Snowden's defense, you only need to be anti-illegal snooping to support Snowden.

I'm so pro-American that I immigrated to become an American. But as they say, we don't live in our father's America any more.

Our Dearest Dear Leader is aping the Great Helmsman, the Führer rules by decrees (executive orders), blackmails opponents with IRS attack dogs, snoops ordinary citizens under the guise of protecting national security, persecutes whistle blowers and non-complying journalists as espionage conspirators, intimidates Inspector Generals to cover up underlings' malfeasance, jails a private citizen to cover up his Benghazi debacle... Whatever good for the Führer is good for the State, whoever is against the Führer is against America.

Snowden broke the law? WTF???!!!!!While we have the mopst lawless administration in history; we're worried about Snowden??? Time to get real ... this administration MUST be called out and dismantled. I'm not gonna support Snowden's proesecution until I know more about the truth of what exactly he's done other than alert us to a tyrannical regime going awol. Let's hear from Snowden first.

"Even his father recently acknowledged that his son broke U.S. law..."

Ron, our out of control government has made lawbreakers of us all, by design. And if its not the multi-thousand page congressional law, it's a fiat regulation by one of the dozens of faceless bureaucracies headed by the likes of Janet Napolitano or the EPA or the IRS -- who make law up as they go along. And if not them, we have fiat Executive Orders.

You, Ron, are a breaker of US Law, believe me. And now we know the NSA, CIA, FBI, DoJ and IRS can prove your guilt should they want to destroy you, by going back in your records.

Yeah, Snowden's being used by the bad actors to embarrass the US, but where would you run if the full weight and terror of the US Government headed by a tyrant came down on you?

Easy for you to say Ellsberg "faced the music" but he had the entire media, all of the Democrats and the stink of Vietnam on his side.

We've GOT to throttle back the federal government or we'll be swallowed by it. It's now very close to becoming The Party: three co-equal branches, but more like a deadly Hydra headed monster killing all in its path.

Snowden has four laptops. No doubt, the Russians and Chinese have copied their hard drives by now.Who knows what other information was passed to avowed American adversaries? Your children could have been jeopardized.Are you such a True Believer as to think no U.S. secret worth protecting?

If you are still there: Information about shredding of recommendations came from Admiral Zumwalt himself in an interview (somewhere) in 1973 or possibly early 74.

Information about regiment of Marines came from Sir Robert Thompson (Malaya 1948-60) was in a book by him about that same time frame.

Actual VN history and blunders have been written up many times and places. Lewis Sorley puts primary blame on Westmoreland. Whiz Kids both in DoD, CORDS and places like Rand Corp were in Amen Corner for every wrong-headed move made. Ellsberg, Harold Brown and others whose names escape me at the moment. Only real man among them was the late Les Aspin who stepped foward, fessed up and promised not to do it again.

Other than this I am not going to research the details again. Too long ago and I have other fish to fry.

BTW When it comes to exposing classified chicanery: Been there, done that. Got away with it and showed no info to unfriendly hands. Also short-circuited an effort by civilians to have U S Army practice PSYOP on American citizens in Pacific Islands.

Oilpatch!You are too kind. Grew up during Vietnam, but that's not saying much as it seemed unending.

We know what McNamara did but we also had to know that it didn't stop there.

A person can address history and miss monumentally important things. I've since found that a lot of 'history' terribly incomplete or simply wrong. When I hit my 30's I figured out that I would probably have to start all over again.

Luckily, whatever my level of ignorance, I've maintained a right mind from the beginning. Thank my parents for that.

I take your info and your comment in, I hope, the proper spirit. Thanks again. Terry

GD agnabit, if Radosh and other neocon idiots want to keep playing the strange bedfellows argument, then John 'jihad' McCain and Lindsey Graham should be sent to Gitmo for their support of the Syria Al-Qaeda. And a lot of the pro-Syria interventionists with them.

One has to be paranoid (like me) to wonder if the NSA has somethingon Mr. Radosh that they can use to blackmail him, or perhaps a familymember; Did they pay him a visit and ask a few simple questions ?

Or did he simply look at the facts, decide the war is over and his side lost,and attempt to come to an accommodation with the winners ?

If in reading this, one experiences even a fleeting moment of my paranoia,due to what they know or suspect about the Obama administration, then Snowden is a patriot, a hero, and one of our last chances to take backour government.

"One has to be paranoid (like me) to wonder if the NSA has somethingon Mr. Radosh that they can use to blackmail him, or perhaps a familymember; Did they pay him a visit and ask a few simple questions ?

I find myself asking that question about all kinds of people constantly. The feds have done an excellent job of it. Whom do you trust? Whom can you trust?

Am I wrong or was Mr. Radosh somewhere on the Left before moving Right?Can't imagine there'd be anything in his closet. Or mine, or yours.

My suspicion is that, between the threat of retribution, the warm arms of 'conservatives' who want Snowden's head and, as an insurance policy for a fiscally (and possibly physically) healthy future, Mr. Radosh has seen fit to lay up some treasure in heaven to establish political bona fides down the road, not unlike appeasers of islam who want to be first in line on the apologist patrol.

I happen to think the open border zealots and Napolitano are a greater risk to my national security than Snowden. I don'tsense evil intent from Snowden but I definitely do from thisadministration. I have never felt this way about governmentbefore Obama.

News Quiz1. What do Celia Roady and Medea Benjamin and Edward Snowden have in common?2. Are the transparent theatrics of the Obama minstrel show a} an indication of a sick, cynical administration or b} merely another middle finger extended to America?3. Are these cheap, pathetic histrionics effective on low-information voters?

Answers1. Snowden was planted by Axelrod just like the woman at that IRS meeting who asked about the tea party targeting and Obama's code pink heckler.

It was successful. The media are now flooded with this story, which most of Wonder Boy's enemies support him on, and NOT talking about IRS or Benghazi. LOOK! A squirrel!

So don't worry, folks. Snowden will never be caught or prosecuted.

2. a and b

3. They re-elected him, didn't they?

Now to the substance of NSA...This is not about terrorism or spying. It is about extortion. Every shred of the information on Obama's enemies is getting funneled off to Axelrod, Gibbs and Messina.

Look at all the squirrelly decisions coming out of Roberts. Now think about who has the records of every phone call, email and internet search he -and his family- have ever made... and who has possession of all of their medical records.

Now why might all the politicians on both sides of the aisle be coalescing so rapidly?

The issue I am far more concerned with is that our 'most transparent administration in the history of the United States of America' is abusing the rights of it's citizens on a daily basis. The only transparency I am aware of is this administrations goal of total and complete control of everything. It is unfortunate that Edward Snowden felt it necessary to seek help from people/governments that would relish the demise of the United States but if you fear your own government, what other choices do do you have? I, for one, don't trust our government given their stellar job of protecting our diplomat and other American citizens in Benghazi and their incompetence resulting in the bombings in Boston. They were too busy spying on us to be bothered with warnings from Russia.

Mr. Radosh makes a good case that Snowden’s intent was to do harm to the US. Snowden’s actions are on the face of it a betrayal of the US. Whether or not that was/is his intent he is at least technically a traitor. Mr. Radosh has spent his adult life documenting and exposing socialist by whatever name they hide behind, and their massive propaganda machine. It is quite natural that Mr. Radosh would focus on that aspect of the Snowden affair.However, I think anyone idolizing Snowden as a hero, or wasting their time vilifying Snowden, is possibly a fool, and certainly missing the point. What is important, regardless of Edward Snowden’s intent or effect on US security, is that Snowden exposed an internal threat to the people of the US every bit as dangerous as any external threat. In the name of security, we are allowing the US government to build a crucial part of a machine that will enslave us all.At this point, if I were Mr. Radosh, I wouldn’t fret over leftist bombast and posturing. They are no doubt ecstatic as they point their fingers feigning horror and shock over a program that is actually a hallmark of socialist governance. They will, if they haven’t already, gleefully use this program against their fellow citizens to quash resistance to their march forward.

I'm not so concerned with what the NSA is doing so long as the federal courts are functioning and relatively honest. Even if they try to use the espionage laws to whisk you off into the night and fog as long as somebody cares enough about you to act on your behalf, you should be able to get a writ of habeas corpus.

What I worry about is that the Google weenies that built OFA's vaunted database have access to NSA's database and what first the Obama Campaign and now OFA are mining the NSA data. If that's true, and I think it is and all the stuff about volunteers is just a legend, there'll never be another free and fair election in what used to be America.